Washington – Number Sexual attacks reported over the US Army Svaked by almost 4% last year, encouraged by a significant array of the army, the connected press was learned. It was the second year in a row with a reduction, reversing a worrisome trend that covered the Defense Department for more than a decade.
High American officials said that while falling a good sign, Number of attacked attacks It is still too high and the military needs to do more to report victims of often undiscovered crimes.
According to officials, there were 8,195 reported sexual attacks in 2024. years involved military members, compared to 8,515 in 2023. years. Years. 2022. There were 8,942 reported sexual attacks, Spike who started the widespread alarm and led to New programs And the infusion of funding to try to fight a problem.
Officials spoke about the state of anonymity because the report was not publicly released.
According to the data obtained by the AP, the total reduction was due to falling 13% of the reported sexual assails across the army, which is the largest military service.
All other services increase. The Navy had a largest jump of 4.3%, while the airlier had an increase of 2.2%, and the sea corpus increased by less than 1%.
From 8,195 in total, there were 512 members of the service reported that occurred before they entered the army. The Pentagon encourages reporting so that the victims can get any support they need. In addition, 641 were civilians who said that he attacked a member of the military.
Although the reported attacks decreased, the number of sexual harassment complaints has passed 2,980 in 2023. to 3,014. The majority filed members of the Women’s Services, and the vast majority of these accused were male.
The latest report also reflects the first year of how many prosecutor’s office procedures exist, placing independent lawyers in charge of these decisions and commands aside after congresses are pressed.
Change, long leader for the Pentagon, finally forced frustrated legislators who believed that often commanders would not seriously take victim appeals or attempt to protect the alleged perpetrators in their units.
Officials said that it was too early to have the effects of that change on the Prosecution Process.
The number of cases in which he misbred wrongly increased a little last year in the total amount of 2023. Years. The number of discharges and administrative actions against alleged perpetrators continued to increase, and court martial costs declined – both trends return several years.
Officials noticed that almost three-quarters of court martial arts ended in judgments, a slight increase compared to the previous year.
The reports on the sexual assault in the army increased in the past decade, except for a small decrease in 2020. year during the Pandemic on Covid. Officials say they are optimistic about a recent reduction, but they say that much more work needs to be done.
Although it is difficult to indicate any reason for a two-year decline, the Department of Defense is a number of changes in the past year that officials say they can contribute to shift. Services use the infusion of more than $ 1 billion to improve the program and employ up to 2,500 staff as part of the new “labor prevention” and place them on military installations worldwide.
So far, about 1,400 are engaged for that work, but this process is stopped this year because of the Trump Administration Budget and staff cuts through the Federal Government. Defense officials said they were working on the widening of existing workers around to reduce gaps as long as it can no longer hire.
The Pentagon releases the report on the number of sexual attacks that have reported or troops each year. But because a sexual assault is highly insufficiently non-presaintaries, the department also works a confidential research every two years to emerge a clearer image of the problem. That research, which is carried out on the net, went out last year, so it wasn’t done this year.
Last year’s survey said more than 29,000 members of the active services were said to have experienced unwanted sexual contact compared to nearly 36,000 in research in 2021. year, several defense officials. The reduction was first in eight years.
But officials said that the research also indicates that a large number of members of services never be reported.
Defense officers have long claimed that the increase in the reported attacks is a positive trend because so many people are reluctant to report them, both in the army and society as a whole. Greater reporting, they say, shows that there is more confidence in the report system and greater comfort with the support of the victims.
2025-05-01 04:46:00
